Nourish Kefir - award winning organic fermented milk drink

Who Are We?

We are a family business and independent kefir producer. Hello!
We make kefir because our founder Deborah healed her gut from Crohn's disease after drinking kefir she made at home.  So profound was this healing that she had a lightbulb moment: if kefir can help me, it can help others...  and so the journey began into working out how to start a kefir business and sell to everyone looking to support their gut health!

Our journey started 20 years ago, and that time seems to have flown by!  We went from importing kefir from Slovenia, then learning how to ferment kefir grains on a large scale.  You see, the grains are the gold standard as far as kefir is concerned.  We go the extra mile to ferment these wonderful cultures because that is what makes the difference to the positive effects our customers say they feel.

We care about delivering results and are proud to have made a difference to thousands of tummy's over the years.  We're not the biggest, you won't find us in supermarkets, but you will find us in independent health and wholefood shops and wonderful online delivery grocers.

What Are Kefir Grains?

It's a good question to ask!  Unless you've had some experience of them, kefir grains are a bit of a mystery.  They're a unique type of micro organism, clusters of good bacteria that occur in nature.  They can't be reproduced in a lab - they have to grow and multiply in their favourite food - milk!  You can see the clusters in the photo above - but it doesn't do justice to the hundreds of living colonies inside that cluster.  We've been growing kefir grains since 2006, and we've got to know them well.  They have specific conditions that helps to bring out the best of the bacteria.  We grow them in milk, which is called fermentation.  Our kefir grains have hundreds of different species including yeasts as well as bacteria.  The bacteria don't all grow equally though, some species are more abundant than others.  And some strains only exist in kefir grains such as kefiran... What's great is that many strains found in kefir have been scientifically proven to provide health benefits to the human body.   Although Kefir has been discovered in the tombs of ancient mummies, it's secrets are only slowly being revealed.  At Nourish we have a gut feeling that kefir grains will become more important in our diets as scientific evidence reveals how special they are.